Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-25
TRIAL OF -BrRsLAns.
George Ham and III. stephens
Charged with the OHense.

Court on Wednesday, and was continued
throughout yesterday.
The following persons we're selected IS
trial Jurors il the case Of the State VS..
George Ham and h. Stephens, charged
with burglarizing Wells. Fargo Il Co.'S
Office a. Psiisads on the night of Feb
ruary 8, 1887: John Hancock, John
Greenwood. Henry Allen, B. ]. Boving-
ton, James J. Bergman, Louis Brandt.
Frank Absdie, Samuel ]. Gibson. W. H.
Brown, John Jones, d. P. Jones and
Samuel Eccles.
b. S. Southern being sworn. said: 1
an agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., and
Postmaster at Palissde, Nevada. / sleep
in Wells, Fargo Il Cos office. On the
night of the oth l was engaged from s to
ga O'Clock in making out 8 statement for
Wells, Fargo & Co. When l had completed
the statement, and fixed up my papers, etc..
for ths next train, / left the Office and
went over TO Tom JEWELS store, where l
remainded until 10 O'Clock. On return
ing 10 my office l fixed the fire and sat
down to read = paper. to see If / could find
NIL ~
his time q knock came at the door. i:
was locked. | got up TO unlock it, and
opened it six or eighs inches 70 look out,
and see who was there and what they
wanted; as / did SO two men stood there.
and they forced the door open roughly
and entered the office by force. They
presented two pistols ct my head. One of
the men was larger than the other; the
largest man stood at the right Of the
smallest man. As they entered they
told me to hold up my hands. l caught
the small mans pistol hand with my left
band and showed it up. at the same time
saying, None Of your id fooling.
boys" / was Immediately struck by the
larger mar of the two on the right aide OF
my head. He must have struck me with
his left hand. Witness here showed
where he stood when struck. As | re-
covered from the blow l moved between
the truck and counter, and both men
came in the Office. The next thing / re-
allied / was lying on the truck; whether /
was pushed or knocked there / don't re-
collect; l was stunned from the blow; when
/ began to revive l felt the blood running
down my neck, / then began to realize the
situstion, and remembered that l had
been ordered TO hold mp my hands. |
held up nv hands and said: There is
no use OF abusing me, boys; you have the
droop on me, and / can't help myself"
One of them said, "You id s-n of a
BIB, / rave 8 good mind to kill you, any
how" The smallest man said, "Open
! the SAFE" / ans wered that / would. He
said, "Don't talk 30 loud" Az l walked
| towards the safe. and moved my
hands to get the keys from my
pocket. the largest man said, 'hold up
| you'll hands," l said, if you don't let me
| get the keys out Of my pocket. how can ]
open the safe. Then the smallest said
s'put your hand in your pocket and gel
| the keys, and open -" The largest mar
had his elbow on the desk, with pistol
| covering me, as | stopped down TO open
the safe. The smallest man then took q
| light and looked into the safe, and told
me TO take out the little drawer in the
safe. He also had a pistol in his hand
| / handed out the drawer, which contained
gold, silver and greenbseks. He ooh the
gold aud silver and placed them in hi:
left-hand coat pocket; as he did so, l asked
him to give me a little gold seal, As it wa,
q present from my sister, q | would like
to have it, but he did not give ii to me
As he was putting the greenbscks in hi
pocket, with other papers, / asked him tc
leave the papers. He dropped some OF
the floor. but took all the currency. ]
recollect there we're three $40 greenbacks,
and three SIS, and some others, the de
nominations of which l don't know; tbs
gold coins were mostly IS pieces, and some
$40 pieces. The smallest man, after put
ting ell the money in bis pocket, took &
light and looked into the safe, and saw
cast iron box. He told me to open it. ]
done 30. He took the box and placed il
on the floor. He saw a purse in the bacl
of the safe and told me to take it out; il
contained two or three 500 pieces, which
he TOOK and placed in his pocket. The
largest Of the two men told me to open the
other safe. / said there was no other safe,
| lie said there was. / told him to find it.
The larger man then moved back to his
first position, and the smaller one was
| looking around to find the other safe. The
larger man said, "open the treasure box
l told him there was nothing 10 the box
He repeated his demand, and I opened
the box. They then asked me what was
| over on that side pointing to the
Postofice DEPARTMENT. l went over
to the Pos.ofice, and the smallest
| man also entered. / showed him there
was nothing but papers in the Office. The
smaller man gave the larger one to un-
derstand the safe was there. but there wa
nothing in it but papers. They then or.
| dered me to show them to my bedroom,
to see what was there. They entered and
examined everything in it. They then
asked what was in the other room. They
looked in, and said there was nothing in
there they wanted. They then ordered
me TO strip off and go to bed. l did as
directed. l did not see the large man
after / went to bed, but could see a pistol
pointed at me from the door. The small.
est man said. We will have to tie you.
old man." and he pulled out G bundle Of
loose, strong twine, or cord. and took
from his pocket o jack knife, and cut off a
couple Of yards of the twine. He then
tied me around the ankles, and then around
the knees. While he was tying nae I was
looking particularly ct him; he had q red
cloth handkerchief over his face; it had
light spots on IL; he had no beard; COM
plexion fair; his shirt appeared TO be drab
colored; his coat was buttoned up; don't
know whether he had on Q necktie or not;
his hat was q dark soft felt hat. with the
rim turned up q little. His overalls looked
faded. After he tied my knees he tied
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